Answer:
- She was a very good student
- She married a civil rights lawyer
Explanation:
Because of racial segregation in the United States, blacks could not study in the same schools as whites. There was a single black college in Eatonton, where Alice Walker attended high school. She had the highest performance of her class, being the speaker of her class, a title given in American schools to students who get the best grades. For her grades, she received a full scholarship from Spelman College in the state capital, Atlanta, where she began her studies in 1961. There she quickly became involved with the civil rights movement and made friends with two of her teachers, the historians Howard Zinn and Staughton Lynd. He transferred his studies, however, two years later. Alice had received another scholarship offer, which she accepted at Sarah Lawrence College.
She finished her studies at Sarah Lawrence College in 1965, the same year she met Melvyn R. Leventhal, a civil rights lawyer. They married in 1967 in New York and in the same year they moved to Jackson, Mississippi, becoming the first couple of the state to be constituted of a black and white person. They were persecuted and threatened by whites from the region, including members of the Ku Klux Klan. Two years later, in 1969, his daughter Rebecca was born.
